Monday, January 30, 2012

MORNING BRIEFING -- Copper and Pizza Bandits

Your
Pepperoni or you Life -- A man with a knife, making slashy-slashy
motions, robbed a pizza delivery man of four out of the five pizzas he was
carrying Sunday night. Which poses the question: What sort of sick,
twisted madman doesn’t take the fifth pizza? (SR)

The
Lilac Revolution -- A new Lilac Queen has been crowned. Sydnee
Scofield of Central Valley High School Queen has not been asked whether she will
execute her competitors, scatter their ashes to the wind, and exile their
families deep into the Palouse. (KREM)

‘Round Those Parts

Occupy
Wall Street’s back, baby -- With the
acceleration-factors of technology, now Americans feel “nostalgia” for more and
more recent times. Like, remember those halcyon days of 2011, when we were
young, and hordes of protesters would march on our capitols and our financial
institutions, condemning income inequality and the power of the rich? Well,
things have gotten pretty retro lately, with Occupy Oakland’s violent protest
spurring 400 arrests and awakening the “Occupy” movement from its slumber.
(MSNBC)

Worker
drones -- America is out of Iraq. And by “America” we mean, actual
flesh-and-blood Americans, not, it turns out, Machine-Americans, like the drones
that watch the skies overhead. Already, the drones have angered several Iraqi
officials. (NYT)

Complete
reformat -- The Great MegaUpload Purge continues, with constant
episodes of HBO’s Deadwood and DVD rips of “Bridesmaids” being held hostage. The
latest problem to arise after the arrest of the file sharing sites eccentric CEO
and seizure is that the site, famous for sundry full-length DVD quality
copyright violations, actually held some legitimate material. Now, those files
could be erased. (Atlantic Wire)